Jason Todd Ready, a Neo-Nazi founder of an anti-immigrant border militia appears to have shot his girlfriend, her daughter and the daughter’s boyfriend, her 15 month old granddaughter, and then himself. He advocated the use of deadly force to stop illegal immigration (he was based inArizona). It may or may not be of any note, but his girlfriend’s last name was Mederos.

He blamed the violence in theU.S.on minorities and illegals, (Jewish, Blacks, and Mexicans, specifically). And then he does something like this. So where did the violence really come from?

It was already inside of him, already a part of him. People who advocate the use of violence to solve immigration problems are not a part of the solution. They are evidence of a greater problem in theU.S.The insidious nature of hatred that tells people that violence against the ‘other’ is okay and slowly leads to the thought of violence against anyone ‘not me’ is okay.

Ever since 9/11, hate levels in this country have been rising. Inroads against ‘Hate’ that society had been making started to vanish. Hatred of Muslims and Middle Easterners have continued to rise and increased hatred of Black Americans as well.

Proof of this is the fact that so many Americans still insist on believing that Obama is a Muslim and that the government officials in the state ofHawaiiare lying to the rest of the country and that Obama’s birth certificate is a fake.

Proof of increasing levels of hatred is found in the fact that so many people think that it is good and right to give up freedoms we fought a revolutionary war to get in order to be ‘safer’ from terrorists.

To me it is just proof that we allowed the terrorists to win. Killing bin Laden was not a victory since we already lost the most important part of the ‘war’. Our very lifestyle was altered so that people living with a layer of fear over everyday life. This layer of fear feeds the hatred. The hatred feeds the violence. The violence feeds the fear. All in one downward spiral. It is a Viscious Circle.